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Diffractive Reading

Summary/Abstract: The article overviews general principles of diffractive reading, an approach to literarystudies inspired by Karen Barad’s agential realism. Barad’s concept is characterized byinclusiveness and interdisciplinarity; it does not represent a rigorous research method,but rather a specific way of viewing literature as an integral part of the ontological/material structure of reality. In this view, a literary work is not so much a work specificallyhuman and independent but a dynamic space of intra-actions both between human andnon-human agents. The article considers the diffractive reading project in the contextof the current paradigm shift in the humanities (Domańska), and in relation to FrancoMoretti’s idea of distant reading.

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